The Marine SextantThe MarineSextantThe marine sextants only function is to measure angles, eitherhorizontally or vertically. The most common use of the sextant is forcelestial observations using vertical angles between celestial objects andthe horizon. It is also used for fixing your position using horizontalangles between three charted objects. In this chapter, we will concernourselves with the latter method. Before we can learn how to fix theships position using the marine sextant, we need to learn how to operatethe marine sextant. Figure 8-12 shows the parts of a marine sextant.Figure 8-12. The marine sextant.8-24